Educational reference. Measured from 277 recorded 5m bars of MGC (Micro Gold) on Monday, October 26, 2026.
Fast Stochastics %K crossed above 80 21 separate times during the session, and the typical visit lasted 10 minutes. Across the whole session it sat above 80 for 17.7% of the time, between 20 and 80 for 58.8%, and below 20 for 23.5%.
| Band | Share of session | Bars | Separate visits | Median visit | Longest visit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Above 80 | 17.7% | 49 | 21 | 10 min | 50 min | |
| Between 20 and 80 | 58.8% | 163 | 40 | 15 min | 90 min | |
| Below 20 | 23.5% | 65 | 19 | 10 min | 55 min |
The fast line is the unsmoothed version of the same range calculation, so it reaches the extremes far more often than the smoothed %K and leaves them sooner.
Here the reading entered overbought territory 21 times, with a median stay of 10 minutes and a longest of 50. The gap between this page's visit count and the smoothed Stochastics page for the same session is a direct measure of how much the smoothing removes.
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